August 19th, 2008, a new travel site launched. This one is a bit different than the others I’ve seen so far, because it’s based on a TRIP and not on YOU as a user. You create a homepage for your trip you’re planning.

What did catch my interest at once - of course - was that they dared to show their sense of humor: “Don’t forget clean underwear”. That’s a very good start in my eyes… *giggles*

TravelMob is a combined social travel network site and travel booking site at the same time. It’s also a quite nice group travel site, since you can invite your fellow travelers there and keep them updated with a similar status feed as in Facebook and other popular sites.

This means that it makes it a very good travel tool for both business and hobby travelers. You can easily keep track of each other and meet up in different places in the world if you’d like to. In similar way as Evite, for party planning.

There are lots of features supporting travel in there, no doubt about it: photo galleries, message board, tour information for destinations and booking system for flights, hotels, cars - even though you don’t have to book through them. You still can add your booking details yourself from other booking sites.

I’m sure more will be coming later on to. You really get the whole feeling of planning it all in one place.

As they so well are saying themselves:

“…Just set up a quick travel page, send it to your friends, and the mob mentality takes over. People love throwing out suggestions of where to go and what to do. It’s a giant brainstorm, a collaborative travel fantasy that actually comes to fruition with the click of a button”.

Oh, and don’t miss that half of the TravelMob there will go around the world during a year. All users will be able to keep track of them during this trip. Some good example I say.

Click > to start the slideshow with the screenshots showing a bit of the site.

So, does it have anything I don’t like? Of course, nothing is completely without flaws! Remember, this is a very new site!

One feature that I missed, where the ability to save a search in there. For example, when I searched for tours and found one to click on, I got the information about the tour, but also the only option were to pay.

I’d love to be able to save it until later, because as an investigating travel planner, I might need to compare a lot before I decide which ones I wanna go to and I need to be able to find them fast again.

Then there is the very important first impression when you comes to a site. I don’t like the web design on this one. It looks very plain and don’t give that new, hip impression to me that I know that others than me always want too - even if it should be the functionality that rules.

Have a look for yourself - plan a trip!

It’s Saturday and we need some fun, right? Especially me who has catch a cold with a flooding nose, so you have to wait another day or two for my next post.

This is from the extremely popular Swedish TV show Nöjesmassakern, which was one of my absolute favorites.

The poor man that everybody is laughing at is Sven Melander, famous Swede and the passport control officer is played by the Norwegian Jon Skolmen. Both also has played in several Swedish comedy movies made by Lasse Åberg.

We all know the feeling…. *giggles*

Wordless Wednesday

OK, I couldn’t resist to post this more unusual travel photo. *giggles* Everybody is posting such beautiful or interesting photos all the time. This is the reality - the aftermath of being away for over 5 weeks.

Note the towels on the top of the laundry mountain, that is special travel towels of microfibre. The green ones are Sea Summit Tek towels and the blue ones are Eagle Creek Travel Towels.

They may not be as comfortable to use as normal towels, but I must say that we’re very pleased with them. They really are functional, making you dry on no time, very absorbing, dries quickly and take up much less space, both features that is important when out traveling.

Though I’m also very curious of Sea Summit Pocket Towels, they seem to take even less space.

Besides sorting dirty laundry, I’ve also started to sort travel photos. I haven’t decided yet what my next post will be about - I really have a lot of post material now!